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Astronomica — Babwell (Bury St Edmunds), Suffolk. Franciscan convent.


Provenance: Babwell (Bury St Edmunds), Suffolk. Franciscan convent.
Location: Beinecke Library, New Haven (CT, USA)
Shelfmark: Mellon 37 fols i–iii and pastedowns
Author/Title: Astronomica
Type of evidence: e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution
Notes on evidence:

'De communitate fratrum Minorum Babewellie. Ex dono fratris Nicholai de Hepworth' (fol. i).

Date: ?
Notes:

Fols. i–iii and the pastedowns and binding (white leather over boards) were reused in s. xvi to cover a manuscript on paper, Iohannes de Rupescissa in English written in 1556. Notes of s. xiv on the end pastedown refer to 'Motus planetarum'.